Great Court (Beetzendorf)
The Große Hof , also known as Altenhäuser Hof , Gräfliches Schloss and Gut Beetzendorf I , was a manor in Beetzendorf , a municipality in the Beetzendorf-Diesdorf association in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt . It is listed as an architectural monument in the monument register of the state of Saxony-Anhalt under registration number 094 30536.
history
Wedige I von der Schulenburg (documented since 1555, † 1584), son from Fritz VI von der Schulenburg's first marriage (documented 1510–1552) with Dorothea von Moltzahn, took over the paternal shares in Beetzendorf and left the Great Court around 1580 build in the outer bailey of Beetzendorf Castle . Later his son Wedige Wigand von der Schulenburg (1578–1652) became the owner of the Great Court. From the second marriage, concluded in 1617 by Wedige Wigand von der Schulenburg with Dorothea von der Schulenburg from the house of Apenburg , came his son Lippold II von der Schulenburg (1624–1679), who became the master of Beetzendorf. Since Lippold II von der Schulenburg died without heirs, the Great Court fell to the son of his distant cousin Achaz III von der Schulenburg (1602–1661) from his first marriage, Friedrich Achaz von der Schulenburg (1647–1701). The manor house was enlarged under Friedrich Achaz von der Schulenburg, and it was completed in 1686. His second son Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg (1685–1741) took over the estate and had the St. Mary's Church built next to the manor house in 1735/36 . The eldest son of Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg, Gebhard Werner von der Schulenburg , founded the Wolfsburg branch of the Beetzendorfer branch of the von der Schulenburg family. According to the will , the estate in Beetzendorf fell by lot in 1748 to his second son, Friedrich August I (1727–1797). In 1755 he left military service and moved into the manor house in Beetzendorf, which had only rarely been inhabited before. His only son Friedrich von der Schulenburg (1759-1825) took over the estate after his father's death. The only son from his second marriage to Karoline von Oppen (1772–1797), Werner XXIV von der Schulenburg (1797–1829), continued the estate.
Since Werner XXIV's first two sons died early, his third son, Werner von der Schulenburg (1829–1911) inherited the estate. He had the house renewed and an extension added, which was completed in 1873. Since 1845, due to a recession involving the exchange of Beetzendorfer properties, the property with the castle ruins belonged to the Großer Hof. In 1911 his eldest son, Count Adolf Friedrich von der Schulenburg (1855–1925), took over the estate as entails . His wife Hertha (1871–1958), daughter of August von Gerlach , continued to live on the estate after her husband's death until she was expelled by the Soviet occupiers. Her son, Count Werner von der Schulenburg (1908–1979) was the last noble owner of the Great Court from 1925. Since his father had only married at the age of 52, Count Werner von der Schulenburg was still a minor when his father died in 1925, and his mother's brother, Karl August von Gerlach, initially managed the estate in Beetzendorf for him. From his estate in Parsow , Karl August von Gerlach regularly drove to Beetzendorf.
During the Second World War , the Great Court was damaged by bombs that were probably aimed at the Beetzendorfer granary and the train station. When the Soviet troops moved further west from around 1944, refugees also found accommodation in the manor house. A hospital was also set up there. In the spring of 1945, American units initially took Beetzendorf and took up quarters in the Großer Hof. British occupiers later moved into Beetzendorf and the Großer Hof. Before the Great Court was finally occupied by Soviet troops in July 1945, Werner von der Schulenburg's wife, Rosemarie von der Schulenburg, managed to save part of the historical inventory. Under Soviet rule, the files and documents left behind in the manor archives were thrown in the yard and burned. In October 1945, the property was expropriated as part of the land reform and the owner family had to leave the Großer Hof within 24 hours.
In the GDR , the estate was a training facility for farmers. The apprentice dormitory of the estate, which in the meantime had become a national estate , was housed in the large courtyard .
After the fall of the Wall , a restaurant, a hotel, a party room and a pizzeria were operated in the extension from 1873 and in the ballroom established in the GDR . The Beetzendorfer library was also temporarily housed in the manor house. Today the manor is empty.
From 1741 to 1925 the Vorwerk Groß Wohlgemuth also belonged to the estate.
Those who died from the Great Court were buried in the Beetzendorf estate cemetery, which was established in 1870 .
See also
literature
- Dietrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Hans Wätjen: History of the sex from the Schulenburg 1237 to 1983. Lower Saxony printing and publishing house Günter Hempel Wolfsburg, ISBN 3-87327-000-5 , Wolfsburg 1984, pp. 128-129, 134, 136 , 218, 232-234, 241, 317, 423-429, 559.
- Rosemarie Countess von der Schulenburg born. von Blücher: That's it. , Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen 2002/2004, ISBN 3-89873-604-0 , pp. 104-162.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beverhotel. hotel-mix.de, accessed on August 10, 2019.
- ↑ A touch of nostalgia in the library. az-online.de, September 22, 2017, accessed on August 16, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 42 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 11 ° 5 ′ 42 ″ E